Pinchas Menachem Alter
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| Pinchas Menachem Alter | ||
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| Gerrer Rebbe | ||
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| Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter in middle age | ||
| Term | 7 July 1992 – 7 March 1996 | |
| Full name | Pinchos Menachem Alter | |
| Main work | Pnei Menachem | |
| Born | 9 June, 1926 | |
| Falenica | ||
| Died | 7 March, 1996 | |
| Jerusalem | ||
| Buried | Sfath Emeth Yeshiva, Jerusalem | |
| Dynasty | Ger | |
| Predecessor | Simcha Binem Alter | |
| Successor | Yaakov Arye Alter | |
| Father | Avrohom Mordechai Alter | |
| Mother | Feyge Mintshe Biderman | |
| Wife | Tsipora Alter | |
| Issue | Esther Lipl Moshe Betsalel Alter Shoul Alter Yehuda Arye Leyb Alter Yitzchok Dovid Alter Yaakov Myer Alter Doniel Chayim Alter |
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Pinchas Menachem Alter, (June 9, 1926 - March 7, 1996), also known as the Pnei Menachem after the works he authored, was the the sixth spiritual leader of the the hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1992 till 1996.
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[edit] Early years
Pinchos Menachem was born in Falenits, near Warsaw, Poland in 1926. His barmitzva took place near Ludmir (now Ukraine) not long before the outbreak of World War II. After the War he married his cousin, Tsipora Alter. In the 1950s Rabbi Pinchos Menachem was appointed rosh yeshiva of Sfath Emeth, the flagship yeshiva of Ger.
[edit] Succession as rebbe
Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter succeeded his half-brother Rabbi Simchah Bunim Alter to become rebbe in 1992. Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter was also a half-brother of the fourth rebbe of Ger Yisrael Alter and a son of the third rebbe of Ger Avraham Mordechai Alter. He continued the policies of his brothers by supporting the political work of the Agudat Israel of Israel party promoting the interests of Haredi Judaism in the Israeli Knesset (parliament). He reached a rapprochement with his non-Hasidic Ashkenazi Haredi fellow-rabbis, in particular with Rabbi Elazar Shach, leader of the rival Degel HaTorah party and creating the United Torah Judaism (Yahadut HaTorah) party in order not to lose residual votes in the Israeli proportional representation system and thereby potentially obtain an extra seat for the newly united party in Knesset elections.
Rabbi Pinchos Menachem was succeeded as rosh yeshiva of Sfath Emeth by his son Rabbi Shaul Alter, widely regarded as an eminent Talmudic scholar, but not currently lecturing in the yeshiva due to curricular changes.[citation needed]
Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter died in 1996 after less than four years at the helm of the Ger Hasidim and was succeeded by his nephew Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter, son of Rabbi Simchah Bunim Alter.
[edit] See also
[edit] Rebbes of Ger
- Yitzchak Meir Alter (1798-1866)
- Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (1847-1905)
- Avraham Mordechai Alter (1866-1948)
- Yisrael Alter (1895-1977)
- Simchah Bunim Alter (1898-1992)
- Pinchas Menachem Alter (1926-1996)
- Yaakov Aryeh Alter (b. 1939)
